The 8th Yoo Young Translation Symposium and the 17th Yoo Young Translation Award Ceremony will be held on November 24th, Friday. For more details, please check the website below or the attached poster.Topic: "The Nobel Prize in Literature and Translation of Kenzaburō Ōe's Texts"Date: November 24, 2023 (Friday) 3:00 PM - 7:00 PMVenue: Yonsei University Alumni Hall (2nd floor)Website: https://sites.google.com/view/yysymposium2023/home

2024 Situations International ConferenceCall for PapersKorean Cultural Centre, UK1~3 February 2024 Minor Diasporas in Asia and Beyond From contemporary news media, we receive daily reminders of the current global migration crisis. By some estimates, there are two-hundred seventy million migrants in the world today, roughly 3.5 percent of the world’s population. Although the most trafficked borders traversed (or not) by migrants are well-known, standing at various points of contact between the Global North and the Global South, some of the routes of migration are less well documented. Examples of what Francoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih called “minor transnationalism,” the diasporas at the end of these routes, or more frequently these days at a midpoint along the way, in turn develop in less familiar ways and are perhaps surprising when they emerge as objects of focus. Take for example Zainichi Koreans in Osaka, Vietnamese refugees in New Orleans, ethnic Bangladeshi in Detroit, the North Korean enclave in London, Senegalese migrants in Nicaragua. Even more liminal are the communities of migrants stalled at the border in places like Juarez, Lesvos, and Tangier, unable to reach their desired destination. While it is true that all diasporas by their very nature constitute a site of minority, we may regard these examples as doubly minoritized, that is, as situated in subordinate relation to the dominant culture in the geographies they occupy and as well to the discourse through which diasporas become more widely intelligible. In this context, this conference invites papers that expand the terrain of thought on contemporary migration by considering examples of Korean and other Asian migrant routes and communities, past or present, that may offer insight, by way of both similarity and contrast, into what has become one of the defining humanitarian crises in the world today. Papers that focus on Korean or other Asian diasporas around the world are welcome. Possible topics:North Koreans within and without South KoreaAnti-communist branding“Minor” migrant literature, media, and artCultures of inter-Asian migrationRural/urban migration dynamicsIllegality, trafficking, statelessnessNetworks and loopholesStateless subjects and communitiesState sovereignty and states of exceptionEthics of minor diasporas and minor diasporic encountersMinor globalization, minor postcolonialism“Minor” futures and pastsCartographies of minor diasporasVisualizing border crossings Keynotes:Dr. Chris Berry (King’s College London) Dr. Junyoung Verónica Kim (University of Pittsburgh) Early inquiries with 200-word abstracts are appreciated. By 15 January 2024, we would invite you to submit your 4,000-word Chicago-format conference presentation with its abstract and keywords (the acceptance of the presentation will be decided based on the 4,000-paper). Each invited participant is then expected to turn his or her conference presentation into a finished 6,000-word paper for possible inclusion in a future issue of the SCOPUS-indexed journal, Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context. All inquiries and submissions should be sent to both [email protected] and [email protected]. Submissions should follow the Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.), using only endnotes. Venue: Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK Notes:We will pay for the hotel accommodation for those participants whose papers we accept. The presenters will share twin bedrooms. Cohosted by Korean Cultural Centre UK, UCI Center for Critical Korean Studies, Yonsei University BK21 Project, Situations  

Call for Papers: 2023 Situations International Conference Neoliberal Asia and Its Precarious Others October 20-21, Grand Hyatt Jeju, South Korea The modern history of Asia has been characterized by rapid and even spectacular growth, as societies that were poor and agrarian became prosperous and advanced through the process of state-led development. But the much-vaunted successes of the developmental state have often served to conceal intractable problems and troubling realities. The neoliberal economic model has exacerbated inequalities across the globe, and Asia has not been spared the pernicious dynamic whereby a few have achieved tremendous wealth while many more have fallen out of the middle class and are confronted with an increasingly gloomy and uncertain future. Precarity has driven these issues to the fore, as the loss of faith in the future has come to unsettle and weaken social cohesion in Asia just as it has dissolved it across the West. This conference examines the experience of precarity in Asia, past and present. Whether it relates to contract laborers working without benefits, migrants seeking low-wage jobs, the physically handicapped cut off from steady employment, the neuro-diverse negotiating the rules of corporate culture, or gays and lesbians carving out a niche in a traditional society, Situations welcomes papers from a wide variety of perspectives taking on these and other issues related to the worsening instability of social structures and the spread of uncertainty in traditionally communitarian Asian societies. How have members of marginal or disenfranchised groups responded to the predicaments of precarity, and how are views of these groups changing among the general public? What kind of politics are emerging in response to mass disillusionment regarding a better future, and what kind of influence are disenfranchised groups beginning to exert against the forces arrayed against them? Could precarity also provide opportunities for marginalized groups that did not exist in the past? Invited Speakers: ·      Dr. Rey Chow (Duke University)“Democracy or Totalitarianism? Terms of the New Cold War” ·      Dr. Lisa Yoneyama (University of Toronto)“Thresholds of Precarity” ·      Dr. Youngmin Choe (USC)“The Viscous Return of the Rheol”  Possible topics might include: ·      labor and precarity·      disability rights·      migrant workers in Asia·      precarity and the shaping of biopolitics·      the crisis of the low birth-rate·      the emergence of neuro-diversity (such as Extraordinary Attorney Woo)·      the transformation of family life·      gender identity in uncertain times·      cults as a phenomenon of precarity·      Squid Game and other metaphors of precarity·      environmental politics and the loss of the future·      precarity and the experience of deep time·      the impact of the Old and the New Cold War·      lives under authoritarian regimes  Early inquiries with 200-word abstracts are appreciated. By 20 August 2023, we would invite you to submit your 4,000-word Chicago-format conference presentation with its abstract and keywords (the acceptance of the presentation will be decided based on the 4,000-paper). Each invited participant will then be expected to turn his or her conference presentation into a finished 6,000-word paper for possible inclusion in a future issue of the SCOPUS-indexed journal, Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context. All inquiries and submissions should be sent to both [email protected] and [email protected]. Submissions should follow the Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.), using only endnotes. Venue: Grand Hyatt Jeju (https://www.hyatt.com/en-US/hotel/south-korea/grand-hyatt-jeju/cjugh) Notes:We will pay the hotel accommodation for those participants whose final papers we accept. The presenters will share twin bedrooms.